• François-Joseph Bélanger (draughtsman)
• Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (dedicatee)

Elevation for a mausoleum for Jean-François Thérèse Chalgrin, Paris (?), France

between 1811 and 1818

- Details of this drawing include bas-reliefs of major buildings built by Chalgrin during his lifetime and a roundel with Chalgrin's portrait.

• presentation drawing (proposal)

Brush and ink, pen and black ink with grey washes, green, blue, orange and yellow watercolour, white gouache and gold leaf

sheet: 52.2 x 35.3 cm

DR1984:1789

• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)
• rendering

• scale drawing
• elevation (drawing)

• general view
• exterior view

- Dirt at lower edge, tears at u.l. corner, l.r. corner and l.r. edge, tape attached to the drawing at u.l., u.r., and center top; on verso, traces of tape at left edge and traces of tape and glue at l.l. edge, small brown stains (grease ?) l.r. and u.r., trace of a crease from l.r. to c.r.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and gray ink c.r.: "OEUVRES DE PERCIER / DICTIONNAIRE D'ARCHITECTURE" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, c.l. to c.r.: "ÉGLISE DE St. PHILIPPE DUROULE. / TOUR DE ST. SUPICE. [sic] / À L'EMPEREUR. JAR.dr DU LUXEMBO.g / ARC DE TRIOMPHE DE L'ÉTOILE. / AU RETOUR DE LA GR.e ARMÉE. / SÉMINAIRE DU S.t ESPRIT. / HOTEL S.t FLORENTIN." [sic] inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and green ink, c.l. to c.r.: "CHALGRIN N'EST PLUS,. MAIS SON NOM ET SES BRILLANTs [sic] TRAVAUX PASSERONT À L'IMMORTALITÉ." inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "Projet de tombeau pour l'architecte Chalgrin" and "2" inscribed - on verso, by an unknown hand, in pencil, l. r.: "F" or "J"

Paris ?; France;

• architecture

• figures (representations)
• bas-reliefs
• statues
• frieze (ornamental band)
• candlesticks
• mausoleum
• roundel
• altar tomb
• measuring devices